Worm Week celebrated the importance of earthworms as nature's greatest recycler's. Buglife ran two competitions; worm charming and wonderful worm poetry with some great prizes including a free bug day and a wormery for the school.
Worm Charming Competition
Primary School children were asked to charm the worms of their playing fields to the surface using techniques such as skipping, dancing and even singing! Some of our most creative charming included hula hooping, spontaneous chanting, rainsticks and singing the 'wiggly woo' song.
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| children worm charming © Karen Stearn |
First Prize - A free bug day led by Martin Rapley, The Bug Man
Goldstone Primary School, Hove, East Sussex who charmed a massive 220 worms using tambourines and patting the soil.
Runner Up - An outdoor wormery
Stoke Climsland Primary School, Cllington, Cornwall who charmed 172 worms by doing what can only be described as 'the worm dance!'
Wonderful Worm Poetry
Primary school children were asked to write and illustrate a wonderful worm poem to describe how important earthoworms are. The poems were judged by Julia Donaldson, author of the Gruffalo.
First Prize - wins a desktop wormery
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| Winner of Wonderful Worm Poetry compeition - Jade Spencer, aged 8 from St Thomas Canterbury Junior School, Chester. |
Runner Up - Insect observatory for the garden
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| Rosie Hunter-Davey, aged 9 from Charlestown Primary School, Cornwall. |
Thank you to all those who took part. Worm week has been a great sucess with over 200 schools registering an interest in the competitions. The resources are still available on our website and although the competitions are now closed you can still have a go at the activities and please let us know how you get on! Click here for the teaching resources and here for other children's activities.
